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Truly different!!!

that's some crazy fret job! I wonder what kind of saw they use

Oh, the nut cases are out again. This should cause a buzz at NAMM, then disappear...

The full utility of this idea is captured by the statement that the frets are "optimized for all standard open and barre chord patterns". To which I can only reply, "Really? All of them?"

Last night I watched one of the last great bossa nova guitarists, Oscar Castro-Neves, do his thing up and down a classical guitar's unradiused nylon-stringed fretboard, for a solid ninety minutes, fingers flying and odd chords ringing out so fast that I couldn't keep track, just closed my eyes and let the music wash over me...

There is simply NO WAY that this can be perfectly intonated for every chord, so they qualify things to "standard". Well, 95% of what Oscar was playing was not "standard". Not that he's their market, you understand. So who is, exactly?

This is a rhythm guitar that just might sound perfect to a dog of a certain breed on a clear day of certain humidity, in the shade, with no finger pressing down too much or too little, new strings, and of a very specific gauge. In other words, perfection requires perfection. But the darned thing isn't perfect to begin with, just a closer approximation of perfection that few of us will ever need.

What we have here is overdevelopment to the Nth degree...way overthought...too much time on somebody's hands, coupled with the egocentric hope that enough people will want this sort of thing, to make all this nonsense a worthwhile pastime.

And, for gosh sakes, how do you string bend?

The author notwithstanding, this is an interesting counterpoint.

I don't think I could stand a guitar with frets that looked like that.

Guitar Player gave it a nice endorsement.

Good idea? yes
Innovative? yes
Will you see it standard on any guitar ever? no
Will you see it slung round the neck of an A-list player ever? no

beatlefreak wrote:I don't think I could stand a guitar with frets that looked like that.

I take it you are not a fan of melted watches, also?

Actually, I'm a big fan of surrealistic art. But Dali and guitars don't have anything in common.

And when it comes time for a refret, one should ... send it back to the company????

Maybe one should also use this on those crazy frets:
http://www.voicecapo.com/

Yes - Turn your guitar into an autoharp...

They say it doesn't affect string bending.

.........yeeeeah, right.